Subject: Re: Packages
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:48:13 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3225440905078102@naggum.net>
* "Joe Marshall"
| I want to refer to a symbol that I *know* will exist a short time in the
| future. I have no intention of using or manipulating the symbol until it
| exists and the package system is set up, I just want to refer to the
| name. Even so, I'm out of luck.
I can sympathize with this problem, as you have described it, but I
wonder if you have ever tried to dump a new image with the packages
loaded. That has been how I have done things for the longest time. I
even tend to build my own Emacs that way. It not only saves a lot of
time in the startup phase and avoids loading a lot of files every time,
but building and dumping a new image would of course be done from
scratch, without an init file. The dumped image already has all the
packages loaded so now your init file loads without problems.
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